() Of course, there was another, far quicker way for Qin Fengming to learn what he wanted to know in an instant: using the Soulsearch Secret Art on the Ghost Clan elder's Nascent Soul.
But soul searching was a forbidden art that violated the natural order. The more Qin Fengming learned about cultivation, the more he dreaded such matters governed by unseen fate. He would not meddle with them lightly.
Two days later, Qin Fengming finally finished reading through all the jade slips and ancient books.
Much of what Qin Fengming found in those jade slips and ancient books was completely unfamiliar to him. It was impossible to verify how long those jade slips and ancient books had existed, but Qin Fengming knew that most of what they recorded concerned events from hundreds of thousands of years ago—or even earlier.
Qin Fengming merely skimmed the other accounts. What concerned him was anything related to Death Valley.
Death Valley had existed for an extraordinarily long time. According to the records left by the Ghost Clan elder, its birth had occurred during the ancient war between the True Ghost Realm, the True Demon Realm, and the Spirit Realm, when a tiny fragment of land from the True Ghost Realm had fallen here.
Later, the Ghost Clan's great experts who had remained behind in the Human Realm discovered it. Thus, with the strength of their enormous clan and at the cost of countless people, resources, and treasures, they finally transformed it into an immense Trial Ground: the Eighteen Nether Purgatories.
After this strange region was developed, it truly produced many great Ghost Clan cultivators. There had even been no small number of Ghost Clan cultivators who had relied on it to advance to the Integration realm.
The ancient books recorded that although each